Sunday, January 10, 2016

The steering gearbox is completed... I can now see that the scale of this car is going to be an issue for the spot I'm using as a workspace.

The gearbox is a good example of where the Pocher "instructions" that come with the kit are wildly misleading.

After completing the engine and transmission, the diagrams show assembling the main chassis with the engine, but in the diagrams the steering gearbox, shown here on the side of the engine, is already in place. The diagrams covering assembly of the gearbox are a couple pages later along with assembling the firewall. But you can't wait that long. If you assemble the engine without the gearbox, with the main frame, the gearbox later won't fit and you have to take apart everything you just did.